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Originally Posted by Cody1611
Do these verses refer to race? Some say that God does not want races to mix and here are some of the verses they use.
Genesis 11:7 "Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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If this verse means "race mixing" is prohibited, then what we really need to do is make sure we don't let people learn each other's languages. The sin of Babel was that they refused to obey God's command to replenish the earth:
Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Genesis 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
I've seen some strange explanations of what the sin of Babel was -- as if they tried to "reach heaven" or something like that. But the Bible shows their sin was pride (let us make a name) and rebellion against God (disobeying the command to replenish the earth).
Genesis 11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
This is not God "fearing" what man will do (as if building a tall building is some kind of sin!), it is simply more proof that man is unwilling to show restraint and control his flesh and obey God. So God made what he commanded to do happen.
Anyway, my point is that Babel doesn't have anything to do with race, and if we are supposed to take some kind of "rule" from Babel then why ignore the obvious aspect of language, and invent something about "race mixing?"
Paul makes it clear in
in Christ there is no difference between Jew and Gentile (Romans 10), so the other verses prohibiting Israel from mixing with heathen nations are not applicable to the Church either. And those were national, not "racial."